Abstract

A nonlinear mirror in the form of a fiber-loop reflector with nonreciprocity is proposed as a passive mode locker. The mode-locking process occurs as a result of the interference of counterpropagating pulses, when they are properly chirped in the fiber loop. With a computer simulation, we study a simple one-cavity model and find stable solutions.

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